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I was searching for a quote and instead found a discussion about how Mardil was actually grasping and power-hungry

My opinion:

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With regard to this post, lesbiansforboromir said:

Ohhhhhhh I’m writing a strongly worded letter, how dare they

I replied:

Right??? They were like, his epithet was probably a self-serving ahistorical slant of the later Stewards and people of his time thought he was an ambitious power-grabber and I’m just NOPE! NO THANKS & BYE

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I reblogged this playlist that I first posted in June of 2014:





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Aesthetic post for the Fitzwilliams of Pride and Prejudice—my favourite of Austen’s families.

The extended Fitzwilliam family consists of the children and grandchildren of an unnamed earl, and several of them appear in P&P: Lady Catherine de Bourgh (née Lady Catherine Fitzwilliam), Fitzwilliam Darcy, Colonel Fitzwilliam, Anne de Bourgh, and Georgiana Darcy.

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I'm not watching any SW shows atm (I don't have Disney+ and am not super into the current main characters), but everything I hear makes me really happy with my ultimate plans for my f!Luke Skywalker series.

...I adore OT!Luke as I understand him, and have no greater expression of love for an ostensibly cis male fave character than writing fic where they're genderbent into my own "afab and I guess I don't mind that much" experience. So a lot of my Luke feelings have gone into the f!Luke fic series I've intermittently plugged away at over the last 10+ years (it's up to 130k at this point!). And it looks like those feelings will ... keep going there tbh. My 15-pg outline for the next fic in the series only reaches the end of ROTJ, after all, and I have Plans for what happens after—plans that don't ignore the ST but wind out very differently. I don't care enough about TV canon to fold it in, though.

ugh

Tolkien has racist fans everywhere, but damn is there a certain strain of white European ones who are like ... oh, you're American, you can't possibly understand that "brown-skinned" can only mean "darker-skinned white person" except when he was talking about evil people, obviously.

a) fuck off
b) feels pretty weird as a Greek-American to get lectured on this point
c) fuck offfff

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I don't really feel moved to write fic about Lalwen, but I'm so intrigued by the way the Lalwen-Fingolfin-Anairë-Eärwen situation wound out—Lalwen sticking with her brother while his wife stuck with her BFF. It's not that we should assume Fingolfin and Anairë didn't love each other or whatnot, but it's an interesting case where we see the force that platonic relationships can exert as well as romantic ones.